PGY-1 Didactics Curriculum (2021-2022)

Week #1: 7/7/21 - Introductory lectures  

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM Overview with chief resident(s) Chief residents
2:00-3:00PM   Intro to residency with Program Director Dr. Lauren Spring
3:00-4:00PM Intro to inpatient psychiatry Dr. Emily Hill
4:00-4:30PM Six Core Strategies for Restraint Reduction Dr. Jaskanwar Batra

 

Week #2: 7/14/21 - Introductory lectures

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM Resident as a Teacher Dr. Adeeb Yacoub
2:00-3:00PM Intro to evaluating children and adolescents Dr. Jessica Carbajal
3:00-4:00PM Into to seclusion and restraint Dr. Lauren Spring

 

Week #3: 7/21/21 - Introductory lectures

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM Cultural Psychiatry- Introduction Nidhi Sharoha for Dr. Wilfred Farquharson  
2:00-4:00PM Introduction to Motivational Interviewing Dr. Jenna Palladino

 

Week #4: 7/28/21 - Introductory lectures

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:30PM The psychiatric write up Dr. Ruchi Vikas
2:30-3:30PM Intro to CPEP Dr. Poonam Gill

 

Week #5: 8/4/21 - Introductory lectures

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:30PM The psychiatric write up (Teams) Dr. Ruchi Vikas and Dr. Eduardo Constantino
2:30-4:00PM The psychiatric interview Drs. Emily Hill and Nidhi Sharoha

 

Week #6:  8/11/21 - Introductory lectures

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:30PM The psychiatric write up (Teams) Dr. Ruchi Vikas and Dr. Eduardo Constantino
2:30-4:00PM Intro to psychopharmacology (Teams) Dr. Eduardo Constantino

 

Week #7: 8/18/21 - Introductory lectures

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM

Cultural Psychiatry: 
Concepts of Culture, Race, Ethnicity & Identity

Dr. Spring & Dr. Murphy
2:00-4:00PM Introduction to Motivational Interviewing  Dr. Jenna Palladino

 

Week #8: 8/25/21 - Introductory lectures

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:30PM The psychiatric interview  Drs. Emily Hill and Nidhi Sharoha
2:30-4:00PM Safety planning video & discussion Dr. Lauren Spring

 

Week #9: 9/1/21 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-3:00PM Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders Jodi Weinstein
3:00-4:00PM Intro to antipsychotics Andrew Krebo, DO

 

Week #10:  9/8/21 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-3:00PM  Neurodevelopmental Disorders Scott Falkowitz & Poonam Gill
3:00-4:00PM Intro to using Clozapine Andrew Krebo, DO

 

Week #11: 9/15/21 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM Cultural Self Awareness for Psychiatrists Dr. Spring &
Dr. Coward
2:00-4:00PM Bipolar and related disorders Matthew Sherman, DO

 

Week #12:  9/22/21 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM  Residency Check-in Lauren Spring, MD

 

Week #13: 9/29/21 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-3:00PM  Depressive Disorders Benjamin DeLucia, MD
3:00-4:00PM Intro to Mood Stabilizers Andrew Krebo, DO

 

Week #14: 10/6/21 – PRITE Exam – No lectures

 

Week #15: 10/13/21

Time Course Faculty
1:00-3:00PM  Obsessive compulsive and related disorders Walter Piddoubny, MD
3:00-4:00PM Managing Common Side Effects Andrew Krebo, DO

 

Week #16: 10/20/21 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM  Sexual Orientation: definition of terms & taking a sexual history with LGBTQ. The Importance of language and pronouns Dr. Accardo
2:00-4:00PM Feeding and eating disorders Lauren Spring, MD

 

Week #17:  10/27/21 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-3:00PM  Trauma- and stressor-related disorders Emily Hill, MD
3:00-4:00PM Managing Common Side Effectse Andrew Krebo, DO

 

Week #18:  11/3/21

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM  Neurocognitive disorders Walter Piddoubny, MD

 

Week #19: 11/10/21

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:30PM  Dissociative Disorders Mason Chacko, MD
2:30-4:00PM Anxiety Disorders Courtney Liebling, MD

 

Week #20:  11/17/21

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM Overcoming language barriers: working with interpreters, translators and cultural brokers Anna Coward & 
Angela Turner-Dougherty
2:00-4:00PM  Sleep disorders Emily Hill, MD

 

Week #21: 11/24/21 – No lectures

 

Week #22: 12/1/21 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM  Somatic symptom and related disorders Ilana Yel, DO

 

Week #23: 12/8/21 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM Substance related and addictive disorders Marina Tsoy-Podosenin, MD

 

Week #24:  12/15/21 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM Cultural Psychiatry: Take a stand: Social barometer activity & reflections  Wilfred Farquharson, PhD 
2:00-4:00PM  Personality Disorders Benjamin Delucia, MD

 

Week #25: 12/22/21

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM Inpatient Adult Psychiatry Emily Hill, MD

 

Week #26: 12/29/21 – Holiday No Lectures

 

Week #27: 1/5/22 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM  Safety planning video & discussion Lauren Spring, MD

 

Week #28: 1/12/22 - Introductory lectures  

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM The psychiatric interview Emily Hill, MD
2:00-3:00PM The psychiatric write-up Ruchi Vikas, DO
3:00-4:00PM Intro to evaluating children and adolescents Jessica Carbajal-Caceda, MD

 

Week #29: 1/19/22- Introductory lectures 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM Cultural Psychiatry: Introduction  Wilfred Farquharson, PhD & 
Nidhi Sharoha MD 
2:00-4:00PM Motivational Interviewing Jenna Palladino, PsyD

 

Week #30: 1/26/22 - Introductory lectures  

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:30PM The psychiatric interview Emily Hill, MD
2:30-4:00PM The psychiatric write-up Ruchi Vikas, DO

 

Week #31: 2/2/22 - Introductory lectures  

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:30PM The psychiatric interview Emily Hill, MD 
2:30-4:00PM The psychiatric write up Ruchi Vikas, DO

 

Week #32: 2/9/22 - Introductory lectures  

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM Disruptive and impulse control disorders Poonam Gill, MD and
Scott Falkowitz, DO

 

Week #33:  2/16/22 - Introductory lectures 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM Cultural Psychiatry: 
Concepts of Culture, Race, Ethnicity & Identity
Wilfred Farquharson, PhD & 
Lauren Spring, MD
2:00-4:00PM Motivational Interviewing Jenna Palladino, PsyD

 

Week #34: 2/23/22 - Introductory lectures 

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:30PM Intro to psychopharmacology Eduardo Constantino, MD
2:30-4:00PM Potentially challenging patients Ruchi Vikas, DO

 

Week #35: 3/2/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM Neurodevelopmental Disorders Scott Falkowitz, DO and Poonam Gill, MD

 

Week #36: 3/9/22  

Time Course Faculty
1:00-3:00PM  DSM-5 Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders  Jodi Weinstein, MD
3:00-4:00PM Intro to antipsychotics Andrew Krebo, DO

 

Week #37: 3/16/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM Cultural Psychiatry: Self awareness for Psychiatrist  Lauren Spring, MD
Anna Coward, PhD
2:00-4:00PM Bipolar and related disorders Matthew Sherman, DO

 

Week #38:  3/23/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM  Childhood Disorders Lauren Spring, MD

 

Week #39: 3/30/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-3:00PM  Depressive Disorders Benjamin DeLucia, MD
3:00-4:00PM Intro to Mood Stabilizers Andrew Krebo, DO

 

Week #40: 4/6/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-3:00PM  Obsessive compulsive and related disorders Walter Piddoubny, MD
3:00-4:00PM Managing Common Side Effects Andrew Krebo, DO

 

Week #41:  4/13/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-3:00PM  Trauma- and stressor-related disorders Emily Hill, MD
3:00-4:00PM Managing Common Side Effects Andrew Krebo, DO

 

Week #42: 4/20/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-3:00PM Feeding & Eating disorders  Lauren Spring, MD
3:00-4:00PM  Sexual Orientation: definition of terms & taking a sexual history with LGBTQ. The Importance of language and pronouns Patricia Osborne, PhD

 

Week #43: 4/27/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM  Neurocognitive disorders Walter Piddoubny, MD

 

Week #44: 5/4/22 APA Week- No Classes

 

Week #45: 5/11/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:30PM  Dissociative Disorders Mason Chacko, MD
2:30-4:00PM Anxiety Disorders Courtney Liebling, MD

 

Week #46: 5/18/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM Cultural Psychiatry: overcoming language barriers: working with interpreters, translators and cultural brokers Anna Coward, Phd
Angela Turner-Dougherty, PhD
2:00-4:00PM  Sleep disorders Emily Hill, MD

 

Week #47:  5/25/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM  Somatic symptom and related disorders Ilana Yel, DO
4:00-5:00PM Professional Development & Support Julian Pessier, PhD

 

Week #48: 6/1/22: Resident Retreat- No Classes

 

Week #49: 6/8/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM Substance related and addictive disorders Marina Tsoy-Podosenin, MD

 

Week #50: 6/15/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-2:00PM Take a stand: Social Barometer Activity & Reflections  Dodie Gillett, PhD
2:00-4:00PM  Personality Disorders Benjamin Delucia, MD

 

Week #51: 6/22/22

Time Course Faculty
1:00-4:00PM  Disruptive and impulse control disorders Poonam Gill, MD

 

Week #52: 6/29/22 – No Classes

DSM-5 “Bootcamp”

  • This course is designed to be interactive. It is suggested that residents be assigned certain diagnoses to review, or a Q&A format be used, i.e. white board lesson- try to come up with all of the criteria for a disorder with books closed, or Jeopardy style questions, competition between 2 teams, etc.
  • PowerPoint presentations are discouraged.
  • Criteria for each diagnosis should be reviewed and then applied to a case. Residents and faculty can bring their own patient cases or cases from the DSM-5 Clinical Cases book can be used.
  • Please incorporate basic first line medication treatment for disorders